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Linux 6.11 To Offer More Fine-Tuned Control Over Swappiness (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 4 months ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/linux@programming.dev

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As part of the memory management changes expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle is allowing more fine-tuned control over the swappiness setting used to determine how aggressively pages are swapped out of physical system memory and into the on-disk swap space.

With the new code from Meta, a swappiness argument is supported for memory.reclaim. This effectively allows more finer-grained control over the swapiness behavior without overriding the global swappiness setting.

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[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

Other parts of your Linux OS can now interact with these tools without you having to do it manually.